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Types of Contact : A Field Experiment on Collaborative and Adversarial Caste Integration
Lowe, Matt - 2020
I estimate the effects of collaborative and adversarial intergroup contact. I randomly assigned Indian men from different castes to participate in cricket leagues or to serve as a control group. League players faced variation in collaborative contact, through random assignment to...
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Healthy Climate, Healthy Bodies : Optimal Fuel Taxation and Physical Activity
Van den Bijgaart, I. M.; Klenert, David; Mattauch, Linus; … - 2021
Transport has significant externalities including carbon emissions and air pollution. Public health research has identified additional social gains from active travel, due to health benefits of physical exercise. Per mile, these benefits greatly exceed the external costs from car use. We...
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How Much Violence Does Football Hooliganism Cause?
Fabel, Marc G.; Rainer, Helmut - 2022
explain sports-related violence in the United States, but can be accommodated by social identity explanations of football …
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Title IX and the Evolution of High School Sports
Stevenson, Betsey - 2021
opportunities to include girls, revolutionizing mass sports participation in the United States. This paper analyzes high school … athletic participation in the United States and how sports offerings for boys and girls changed subsequent to the passage of … this legislation. Girls' sports participation rose dramatically both following the enactment of Title IX and subsequent to …
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Sports Clubs and Populism : Quasi-Experimental Evidence from German Cities
Foertsch, Mona; Rösel, Felix - 2023
Does social capital always promote solidarity and democracy, or are social networks such as sports clubs also … vulnerable to populism? We exploit quasi-experimental variation in sports club membership in German cities. Sports clubs are … with higher sports club membership rates in the wake of marginally promoted soccer teams. The populist momentum is however …
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Beyond the classroom: Using title IX to measure the return to high school sports
Stevenson, Betsey - 2010
expansion in female sports participation by using variation in the level of boys' athletic participation across states before … changes between pre- and post-cohorts reveals that a 10-percentage point rise in state-level female sports participation … participation. Furthermore, greater opportunities to play sports leads to greater female participation in previously male …
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To React or Not? Fiscal Policy, Volatility and Welfare in the EU-3
Malley, Jim - 2008
This paper develops a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model to examine the quantitative macroeconomic implications of countercyclical fiscal policy for France, Germany and the UK. The model incorporates real wage rigidity which is the particular market failure justifying policy...
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Quantifying Brexit : From Ex Post to Ex Ante Using Structural Gravity
Smarzynska Javorcik, Beata - 2020
Exploiting changes in the geography of economic integration in Europe, this paper uses detailed Exploiting changes in the geography of economic integration in Europe, we quantify the economic consequences of Brexit using a quantitative general equilibrium model that captures inter- and...
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Right and Yet Wrong : A Spatio-Temporal Evaluation of Germany's COVID-19 Containment Policy
Berlemann, Michael; Haustein, Erik - 2020
In order to get the COVID-19 pandemic under control, most governments around the globe have adopted some sort of containment policies. In the light of the enormous costs of these policies, in many countries highly controversial discussions on the adequacy of the chosen policies evolved. We...
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The Impact of Product and Labour Market Reform on Growth : Evidence for OECD Countries Based on Local Projections
de Haan, Jakob - 2020
This paper examines the impact of labour and product market reforms on economic growth in 25 OECD countries between 1985 and 2013, and tests whether this impact is conditioned by the fiscal policy stance, i.e. whether there are fiscal expansions or adjustments. Our local projection results...
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